LEADER 03972oam 22006135 450 001 9910808045103321 005 20240418022544.0 010 $a1-283-21146-7 010 $a9786613211460 010 $a0-8122-0129-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201291 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051196 035 $a(OCoLC)759158279 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492038 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645323 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11377746 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645323 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683775 035 $a(PQKB)10511649 035 $a(DE-B1597)448984 035 $a(OCoLC)979630900 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201291 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441581 035 $a(PPN)25683492X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051196 100 $a20190708h20102004 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating East and West $eRenaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks /$fNancy Bisaha 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (309 pages) $cmap 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-1976-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-299) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTime Line of Key Events in the Ottoman Advance --$tIntroduction --$t1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences --$t2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the 'lurks in Classical Terms --$t3. Straddling East and West: Byzantium and Greek Refugees --$t4. Religious Influences and Interpretations --$tEpilogue: The Renaissance Legacy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic poetry; and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers played in shaping Western views of self and other.Medieval concepts of Islam were generally informed and constrained by religious attitudes and rhetoric in which Muslims were depicted as enemies of the faith. While humanist thinkers of the Renaissance did not move entirely beyond this stance, Creating East and West argues that their understanding was considerably more complex, in that it addressed secular and cultural issues, marking a watershed between the medieval and modern. Taking a close look at a number of texts, Bisaha expands current notions of Renaissance humanism and of the history of cross-cultural perceptions. Engaging both traditional methods of intellectual history and more recent methods of cross-cultural studies, she demonstrates that modern attitudes of Western societies toward other cultures emerged not during the later period of expansion and domination but rather as a defensive intellectual reaction to a sophisticated and threatening power to the East. 606 $aEast and West 606 $aHumanists 607 $aTurkey$xHistory$yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918 615 0$aEast and West. 615 0$aHumanists. 676 $a956.1/0151/004 700 $aBisaha$b Nancy$0620945 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808045103321 996 $aCreating East and West$91103402 997 $aUNINA